Between Friends

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A novel encompassing more than thirty years follows the lives of two women, Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski, as they learn to seek comfort in their powerful friendship, which has seen them through marriage, children, and tragedy. Their story is told through letters and journal entries.
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A novel encompassing more than thirty years follows the lives of two women, Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski, as they learn to seek comfort in their powerful friendship, which has seen them through marriage, children, and tragedy. Their story is told through letters and journal entries.
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Between Friends
by Debbie Macomber

I really enjoyed this book. I love all Debbie Macomber's books. This book made you feel like you wanted to be friends with each one of these characters. You felt like you were part of the story. I felt like I could relate a little bit with each one of the characters. Very good summer read.

Publishers Weekly, 2002-05-20The prolific Macomber follows up Thursdays at eight with this scrapbook-style novel, which relies solely on letters, newspaper clippings, diary entries and even school essays to tell the story of a friendship spanning more than half a century. Born in 1948 in the same Washington State town, Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski have vastly different backgrounds. Wealthy Jillian is on a trajectory to become a lawyer like her father. Just as smart, but from the wrong side of the tracks, Lesley is destined to remain in their native Washington; like her mother, she becomes pregnant at a young age by an alcoholic philanderer. Despite their different circumstances, Jillian and Lesley forge a grade-school friendship that lasts a lifetime and is evoked in their various communiques. Macomber's storytelling is undermined by the ambitious choice of format. Rather than providing intimacy, the "just a short note" conceit deals superficially with the most significant events of the last 50 years (a quick perusal of the half-page e-mail devoted to the World Trade Center attack will be enough to confirm this) and with the characters themselves, who are somewhat thinly drawn. As for the lessons learned - it's generally easier to be rich than poor, it's never too late to take up golf - there's not much that's revelatory. Still, while this book is unlikely to win her new fans, Macomber's old ones will give it a chance. Author tour. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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